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About the Aggieland RC Club

I would like to take a little bit of your time and tell you about this great hobby and our club we have started in the Brazos Valley which most people call this area "Aggieland". We started this club on October 28, 2008, since this date we have managed to get a really nice place so you can fly just about any thing you could possible want to, Giant scale, Helicopters, etc... you can do it here. With two paved runways running North/South (over 800' long), East/West (approx 350' long) plus a very large grass landing area you approx 600' x1000' you have plenty of options to choose from when taking off and landing which is a real plus when you are first learning to fly.

In addition to the flying we also have a great place to run RC Cars, Truck, & Tanks. With approx 100 acres of land we can do just about anything we want to within reason. Since we are NOT AMA sanctioned we can do things at our club that you cannot do at a AMA field, but your AMA insurance is still good as long as you follow their guidelines from what I have been told. We also have a area for float planes, helicopters, boats, etc..., this is an area is located at or Tabor Field and is coming soon as soon as we get that area fixed up and make it safe.

Now I know this all sounds to good to be true or very expensive but I can assure you that it is true and not expensive at all, actually as long as you are willing to help out around the club it may be completely free to use.

A Bit of Information

This is a wonderful hobby to be in, with so many new technologies coming out these days the sky really is the limit. From micro to large scale RC models you will be really amazed what you have to choose from. A great place to check out models and pricing is at http://www.towerhobbies.com, if you want to watch video's checkout http://www.youtube.com, just do search for RC and whatever you like you will be able to watch video's for hours and hours if not days. We have a new hobby shop here in Bryan called Power R/C Hobbies, Manager is Jarrett Watson, they are located at: 903 South Main, their is also New Creations RC, 9735 County Line Rd. Willis, TX 77378, Larry's Hobbies in Houston, Texas and 2nd Chance Hobbies in Universal City, Texas (Close to San Antonio). You can also find some really good deals on Ebay but be careful what you buy there, a lot of  people try and get rid of their junk that is not worth having, if you do not know anything about this hobby please ask for help from someone that does. If you do not know anybody join our forums and others, they are a great place to get valuable information, ideals, & deals. I would suggest that if you are just getting into this hobby that you stay away from the 72Mhz frequency and go ahead and buy the 2.4Ghz system, Spread Spectrum or FASST (Futaba Advanced Spread Spectrum Technology). This system is not effected by other transmitters, has a longer range, and responds a lot better to transmitter controls because it does not have to convert it from digital to analog. 2.4Ghz also give you real time response, it is a bit more expensive but it is worth it plus you will not have to worry about buying all new receivers when you decide to go to it later, you will spend more money doing it later so just going ahead and buy it now.

There are several types of motors to choose from, 2 or 4 stroke Glow Fuel (which is becoming very expensive), 2 Cycle Gas (like you would put in a weed eater, usually on the larger scale planes), or battery (the new and upcoming thing). There are times you will have to go either Glow Fuel are Battery because of the weight of a gas motor, gas motors are a larger and of course heaver and weight does not fly. 2 stroke glow motors turn a higher RPM but a 4 stroke sounds more like the real plane motor and will spin a bigger prop but are also more expensive.

If you are just getting into this hobby do not go out a buy a scale model to learn on, they are very expensive and not usually easy to fly. Get you a flight simulator (Real Flight by Great Planes makes a very nice one for around 200.00 dollars) G4.5 is their latest release and a trainer model. Learn all you can from that simulator, crashing on that is free, use it until you can fly and land it without crashing the model, then go out to the field and get you a instructor to help you when you fly your model the first time plus it will need some setting up. They have training models they sell that are RTF (Ready To Fly) that are not, I have yet to see one that was totally ready to fly. We have a training system that allows us to link two transmitters together allowing us to take control of the model in case you get into trouble. We can usually save your model from it ending up in a box or a bag at the end of the day, there are no guarantee's  but you have a better chance taking your model home in the same condition you came out in. Once you have mastered your trainer you can move on up to something a bit harder to fly, they sell most planes now in a ARF (Almost Ready to Fly) which means the plane is built for you, it will still need the motor, electronics, and control surfaces setup before you can fly it but is a lot faster than building one from scratch which takes months to do and is usually more expensive for some reason.

I know this is a lot of information to take in and sounds hard but it is really not that much to learn once you get the hang of it plus you can always ask questions and get help. If you love planes and helicopters as much as I do it is great hobby to be in, hope to see you at the field.